Data Validation Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Data Validation
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Data Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.41% - 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £410
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £430 - £410

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

Data Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 231 100 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.90% 96.15% 96.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 84 74
10th Percentile £311 £313 £311
25th Percentile £359 £356 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £400 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% -17.53% +18.58%
75th Percentile £475 £493 £534
90th Percentile £550 £624 £568
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £414 £452
% change year-on-year +1.45% -8.31% +12.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.68%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £35.75
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £25.50 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Data Validation job vacancy trend in Northampton

Data Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Validation

Data Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Complex ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio